Just a few weeks ago, the vocational building trades class closed on its house, but the new homeowners want some changes to be made to the home. According to John Coghlan, vocational building trades teacher, the new homeowners want to add walls, windows and a door to close off the house’s sunroom, add crown molding to rooms, take out some of the house’s carpet and put in different floors, install a different front doors and add shutters to the outside of the house. It was agreed in the contract for the house that the vocational building trades class would make these changes.

Coghlan said it’s “pretty typical” of homeowners to want to change things in their home to make it their own.

“You have to be flexible as a builder,” Coghlan said. “When you’re building a spec house, you can’t put in too wild of countertops and you can’t overly design it.” Coghlan understands the homeowners want to change some of the choices he and his class originally put in the house.

Kevin van Hoorde, second year student of the class and senior, feels differently. “I wouldn’t say its stupid how they bought the house and they are making so many changes to it,” van Hoorde said. “But I think it’s kind of ridiculous.” According to van Hoorde, other students in the class feel the same way. By Julie Kippenbrock <[email protected]>